Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Customers can choose between plans with and without microsoft teams., microsoft 365 business basic.
Originally starting from AU$9.00 now starting from AU$9.00
AU$9.00 AU$9.00
(Annual subscription–auto renews) 1
Apps and services to kick-start your business, including:
Identity, access, and user management for up to 300 employees
Custom business email ([email protected])
Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook 4
Chat, call, and video conference with Microsoft Teams
1 TB of cloud storage per employee
- 10+ additional apps for your business needs (Microsoft Bookings, Planner, Forms, and others)
Automatic spam and malware filtering
Anytime phone and web support
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
Originally starting from AU$18.70 now starting from AU$18.70
AU$18.70 AU$18.70
Everything in Business Basic, plus:
Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Webinars with attendee registration and reporting
New : Collaborative workspaces to co-create using Microsoft Loop
New : Video editing and design tools with Microsoft Clipchamp
Copilot for Microsoft 365 available as an add-on. 3
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Originally starting from AU$32.90 now starting from AU$32.90
AU$32.90 AU$32.90
Everything in Business Standard, plus:
Advanced identity and access management
Enhanced cyberthreat protection against viruses and phishing attacks
Enterprise-grade device and endpoint protection
Discover, classify, and protect sensitive information
Microsoft 365 Apps for business
Originally starting from AU$13.00 now starting from AU$13.00
AU$13.00 AU$13.00
Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook:
Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
1 TB of cloud storage per user
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Frequently asked questions
What is microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 is the productivity cloud designed to help everyone achieve what matters, in their work and life, with best-in-class Microsoft 365 apps, intelligent cloud services, and advanced security.
On how many devices can I install Microsoft 365 apps if I have a Microsoft 365 business plan?
Install Microsoft 365 apps on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five mobile devices. Hybrid Windows devices, such as the Microsoft Surface Pro, count as either a PC or a tablet.
What forms of payment can I use?
All major credit cards are accepted. When paying with a credit card, your subscription amount will appear on your credit card statement. Existing customers may be eligible to pay by invoice and can contact support to check their eligibility for this payment method. Learn more about paying by invoice . For Microsoft 365 business plans, depending on your choice of service, you'll be billed monthly or annually.
What's the difference between monthly, annual, and annual commitment payments?
To provide you with the greatest amount of flexibility, different payment options are available.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Apps for business, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans are available for monthly commitment payment or annual commitment payment.
- Monthly commitment payment: Pay month by month and cancel at any time.
- Annual commitment payment: Sign up for a one-year subscription and benefit from a discount for using this payment option. By default, your billing plan will be set to monthly billing. After your purchase, you can change your billing plan to annual billing within the Microsoft 365 admin center. The Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Office 365 Enterprise plans (including standalone plans such as Exchange Online) and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise are available for annual commitment payment.
- Annual commitment payment: Sign up for a one-year subscription and choose to pay monthly or for the entire year at the time you sign up.
Can I convert my trial to a paid subscription and retain all my settings and files?
Yes. If you purchase Microsoft 365 licenses for the accounts you create during your free trial, the information and configuration for these users' accounts will remain intact. Once your free trial expires, you’ll have an additional 30 days to purchase Microsoft 365 before your account information is erased. Once your trial account information has been erased, it can’t be retrieved.
Does Microsoft 365 work when I'm not connected to the internet?
The Microsoft 365 apps that you install on your PC or Mac—such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—are available to you when you’re not online.
With OneDrive in Microsoft 365, get file storage that you can access when you’re offline. When you make changes while offline, they’ll be synced to OneDrive and across the rest of your devices when you reconnect.
With Outlook, read emails already delivered to your inbox, or draft new emails and meeting requests. Your inbox and outbox will sync across the rest of your devices when you reconnect.
What happens to my data if I cancel my subscription?
Your data is yours. If you decide to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription, download your data—for example, your email and documents on team sites—and save it to another location. You should save your data before you cancel. After you cancel your subscription, data associated with your Microsoft 365 account will be available to your administrator(s) in a limited function account for 90 days.
Where can I find more answers to frequently asked questions?
Find more answers to frequently asked questions on the Microsoft 365 for business FAQ page .
What is Microsoft Defender for Business?
Microsoft Defender for Business is an endpoint security solution designed to help businesses with up to 300 employees. It helps protect against cybersecurity threats, including malware and ransomware, in an easy-to-use, cost-effective package. Microsoft Defender for Business is included with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and is available as a standalone product. Learn more .
How many users can I host for online meetings and video calls using Microsoft Teams?
With Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscriptions that have a Microsoft Teams license, you can host online meetings and video calls for up to 300 people.
With Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Microsoft 365 A3 and A5, and Microsoft 365 Government G3 and G5 subscriptions that have a Microsoft Teams license, this limit increases up to 1,000 people. Learn more .
For IT providers, what are the options to manage more than one customer at a time?
IT service providers can use Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to secure their Business Premium customers at scale. Learn more .
Copilot for Microsoft 365 frequently asked questions
Find more answers to frequently asked questions. Learn more .
- [1] Once your paid subscription begins, cancellation policies vary based on your status as a new customer and your product and domain selections on Microsoft. Learn more . Cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription any time by going to the Microsoft 365 admin center. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365 .
- [2] After your one-month free trial ends, your subscription will automatically convert into a 12-month paid subscription and you will be charged the applicable subscription fee. Cancel anytime during your free trial to stop future charges. Credit card required to sign-up. Learn more .
- [3] Copilot for Microsoft 365 may not be available for all markets and languages. To purchase, enterprise customers must have a license for Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 or Office 365 E3 or E5, and business customers must have a license for Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium, or a version of these suites that no longer includes Microsoft Teams.
- [4] iOS and Android require separate app download. Availability of mobile apps varies by country/region.
- [5] Availability of Audio Conferencing and Calling plans varies by country/region. See countries and regions that are supported for more information.
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Microsoft 365 Business Plans Compared
In April 2020 Microsoft changed the names of the Office 365 Business plans to Microsoft 365 Business. Before this name change, we had only Microsoft 365 Business, but now we have Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, and Apps for Business.
Only the names have changed, the price and the features of the plans have stayed the same. In this article, we are going to take a look at the differences between the Microsoft 365 Business plans . We are going to start with a comparison table so you can quickly compare the most important details between the different plans.
Microsoft 365 for Business Plans Compared
In the table below you will find all the details of the Microsoft 365 business plans compared. You can find the prices for your country here at Microsoft.com . Keep in mind that all Business plans are limited to 300 users.
Note Microsoft added new plans without Teams wich are only available in the European Union. These plans are less expensive. Read everything about it in this article
Tip You can mix Microsoft 365 Business plans with Enterprise plans, so if you have more than 300 users, you buy Office 365 E3 plans for the other users.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
The Microsoft 365 Business Basic plan, formerly known as Office 365 Business Essentials, is the perfect plan if you don’t work a lot in Word, Excel, or Outlook.
In the Business Basic plan, you don’t get the desktop apps , so you can’t install Word, Excel, Outlook, etc on your desktop. But you can use those applications online in your browser.
The browser versions of these apps work perfectly for light usage. Outlook Online is great to work with, it has all the important features just like the Outlook app. Word and Excel Online also work fine if you need to write an occasional letter or spreadsheet.
What makes the Business Basic plan so great is that you get Exchange Online with 50Gb mailboxes OneDrive and SharePoint. So you can use all the benefits of Office 365 (safely storing your data in the cloud, easily working together and sharing documents, etc.), for only $5 per month.
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
This is basically the default Microsoft 365 plan for small businesses ( hence the name 😉 ). Microsoft 365 Business Standard , formerly known as Office 365 Business Premium, contains everything a small business needs.
It comes with desktop apps so that you can install Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. on your desktops, and it comes with a lot of online business apps.
The desktop apps have of course a lot of advantages over the online versions, but the most important ones are that you can use add-ins (for your business applications for example) and macros . Something that is not possible with the online versions.
Business Standard comes with a couple of Online Business Applications that are only available in Standard and Premium.
- Outlook Customer Manager – a Lite CRM system based on Outlook
- Microsoft Teams Shifts – Built-in Microsoft Teams to plan shifts and tasks
- Microsoft Bookings
- Microsoft Invoicing
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Business Premium is an original Microsoft 36 plan, it was formerly known as Microsoft 365 Business. It comes with everything that Business Standard has with the addition of a couple of security features/services and a Windows 10 Pro license.
Windows 10 Pro License
The Windows 10 Pro license is a pretty strange one compared to the other plans, so let me explain it a bit. Some of the advanced security features that come with Business Premium don’t work on older versions of Windows or on Windows 10 Home.
So to make full use of the security features, you get a Windows 10 Pro license. Now to be clear, you can only upgrade Windows 7 or 8 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. You can’t upgrade Windows 10 Home to Pro.
Advanced Security Features
The advanced security features help you to stay protected against cybersecurity threats. It protects you from phishing emails and ransomware.
Another important feature is the Azure Information Protection. If you are working with a lot of sensitive data, then you absolutely don’t want the data to be accidentally shared with others. With Information Protection you can classify, label, and encrypt data so it can’t be shared accidentally.
Keep in mind that settings up these features require some knowledge about Office 365, so it might be a good idea to get an IT/Office 365 Consultant to help you set it up correctly.
Microsoft Intune
The last important addition to this Premium Microsoft 365 Business plan is Intune. With Microsoft Intune, you can manage and protect your mobile devices. Keep in mind data mobile devices are easily getting lost or stolen, so you want to make sure that those are fully protected and easily can be wiped clean when lost.
Microsoft 365 Apps for Business
This plan doesn’t really belong here in this comparison, but I have put it in because of the name and the confusion it might cause. You should actually really compare this plan with just buying Office 2019 in my opinion.
Basically, Apps for Business is only the Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) with the advantage that you also get Online versions, continuous updates, and 1Tb OneDrive storage. But you don’t get SharePoint or Exchange Online.
So you will have to host your email somewhere else, store your files locally (or in OneDrive) and you won’t get any of the advantages of Office 365.
The Microsoft 365 Business Standard plan is for most businesses the best plan to choose. It comes with the Office apps, and all the cloud features and it’s reasonably priced. If you are still in doubt, you can always start with a trial of Business Standard .
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- Microsoft 365 Business Standard vs Office 365 E3
- Office 365 Branding
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M365 Business Premium comes with Windows 10 Business, not Pro. Win 10 Pro is a requirement for Business.
Hi Can M365BP be combine with M365Standard or basic after BP has exceed the 300 limit ?
So 300MBP and 50MBS and so on.
Yes, that is possible.
your statement on Win 10 pro is wrong. Premium CANNOT upgrade a home to pro. I asked microsoft directly to confirm.
“Windows 10 Pro License The Windows 10 Pro license is a pretty strange one compared to the other plans, so let me explain it a bit. Some of the advanced security features that come with Business Premium don’t work on Windows 10 Home. In small companies, you see more Windows 10 Home devices, because people are using a (former) personal device or buy the more affordable computers with Windows 10 Home on it.
So to make full use of the security features, you get a Windows 10 Pro license. Installing it is pretty simple, all you need to do is change the license key and your Windows 10 Home installation will be upgraded to Pro.”
You are correct. I have updated the article.
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Comparing Basic vs Premium Plans
Planner supports two different types of plans, Basic and Premium . There are features that both plans support, and there are features that are only available to a specific plan. Updates are continuously being made to help close on the most critical gaps in the premium plan.
The table below shows which features are included in each plan type.
Note: Access to some features depends on the user’s subscription. Visit Plans & Pricing to learn more about the different Planner subscriptions.
1 Tasks assigned in premium plans will only appear for users who are members of the group associated with the plan. Limited edit capabilities for premium tasks in the assigned to me view. Users will need to open the premium plan to edit all the relevant fields.
2 See Premium plan (Project for the web) limits .
3 Conversations require the premium plan to be added to a Teams channel.
4 Viva Goals integration needs to be enabled see Enable Integrations in Viva Goals | Microsoft Learn
Application and Workflows
Applications and workflows that have been built to interact with basic plans will require modification to work on premium plans.
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Planner supports two different types of plans, Basic and Premium . There are features that both plans support, and there are features that are only available to a specific plan. Updates are continuously being made to help close on the most critical gaps in the premium plan. The table below shows which features are included in each plan type.